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 Person of Honour in the Country,’ London, 1681. At Charles II's request Ormonde replied to Annesley in ‘A Letter … in answer to the … Earl of Anglesey … His Observations and Reflections upon the Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs,’ 12 Nov. 1681. Anglesey retorted in another ‘Letter,’ 7 Dec. 1681, whereupon Ormonde appealed to the privy council on 17 June 1682 to appoint a committee to examine Anglesey's ‘Letter.’ The matter ended, as it was probably intended it should do, in the dismissal of Anglesey and the transfer of the privy seal to Lord Halifax (Hist. MSS. Comm. 2nd Rep. p. 213). The charges preferred by Anglesey were repeated in ‘Brief Reflections on the Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs,’ by E[dmund] B[orlase], London, 1682. In the spring of 1683 it was rumoured that Castlehaven, Lansdowne, and other noblemen intended ‘to go as volunteers to the holy war in Hungary’ (ib. 7th Rep. p. 363). But he seems to have occupied himself preparing a fresh edition of his ‘Memoirs,’ published in 1685, bringing the narrative down to the peace of Nimeguen. An edition, with an anonymous preface by (1720 [sic]–1791) [q. v.], was published at Waterford in 1753, and another at Dublin in 1815.

Castlehaven died at Kilcash, co. Tipperary, his sister Butler's house, on 11 Oct. 1684, and was succeeded by his youngest brother Mervyn (the second son, George, a Benedictine monk, being expressly passed over in the act of 1678). Of his three sisters, Frances became the wife of Richard Butler of Kilcash, brother of the Duke of Ormonde; Dorothy, the wife of Edmund Butler, son and heir of Lord Mountgarret; and Lucy, the wife of Gerald Fitzmaurice, son of Lord Kerry.



TOULMIN, CAMILLA DUFOUR, afterwards (1812–1895), miscellaneous writer, was born on 9 June 1812 at Aldermanbury, London, where her father, William Toulmin, practised as a solicitor. Her grandfather, Dr. William Toulmin, was a physician of repute, while her mother was descended from the Berrys of Birmingham, and was related to the Misses Berry, the friends of Horace Walpole. She evinced exceptional precocity, being able to read at the age of three years. Her father, the victim of financial misfortune, died when Camilla was eight, leaving his widow and daughter unprovided for. The girl's limited education was supplemented by persevering private study. Devoting herself to literature from 1838, she contributed numerous poems, stories illustrating the sufferings of the poor, essays, biographical and historical sketches to periodicals like the ‘People's Journal,’ the ‘London Journal,’ ‘Bentley's Miscellany,’ the ‘Old Monthly Magazine,’ the ‘Illustrated London News,’ ‘Douglas Jerrold's Magazine,’ ‘Ainsworth's Magazine,’ and the annuals. For more than fifty years she was a regular contributor to ‘Chambers's Journal,’ and at the time of her death she was the oldest of its band of writers. On 22 July 1848 Miss Toulmin married Newton Crosland, a London wine merchant with literary and scientific tastes, the author of several treatises and essays on miscellaneous subjects. In 1854 Mrs. Crosland commenced an investigation of the alleged phenomena of spiritualism, in which she became a thoroughgoing believer. She published her conclusions in ‘Light in the Valley: My Experiences of Spiritualism’ (1857), a credulous record, which was received with much scorn by the public. It is now scarce. In 1865 she published a three-volume novel, ‘Mrs. Blake;’ in 1871 the ‘Diamond Wedding, and other Poems;’ and in 1873 a second novel, ‘Hubert Freeth's Prosperity.’ Among her later productions were faithful and spirited translations of Victor Hugo's plays, ‘Hernani’ and ‘Ruy Blas,’ with some of his poems, which appeared in ‘Bohn's Library.’ In 1893 there was issued her last and most interesting work, ‘Landmarks of a Literary Life,’ a book full of charm, which was written when the author was past eighty years of age. The frontispiece is an engraving of the authoress from a miniature painted in 1848. After residing for nearly thirty-eight years at Blackheath, Mrs. Crosland removed in 1886 to 29 Ondine Road, East Dulwich, where she died on 16 Feb. 1895. A memorial window has been placed to her memory in St. Alban's Cathedral. 